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Regulation, Institutions, and Productivity: New Macroeconomic Evidence from OECD Countries

Egert, Balazs - 2017

Empirical research on the drivers of multi-factor productivity (MFP) is abundant at the firm- and industry level but surprisingly little research has been conducted on the determinants of MFP at the macroeconomic level. In this paper, we seek to understand the drivers of country-level MFP with a...

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Legal institutions, innovation and growth

Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex-ante) legal system and a flexible one (law set after observing current technology). The flexible system dominates in terms of welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at...

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Privacy Regulation and Quality-Enhancing Innovation

Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo; Toh, Ying Lei - 2023

We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality …. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and … may harm users. However, if the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently large, privacy regulation has a positive …

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Asymmetric Innovation Agreements under Environmental Regulation

Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C.D. - 2017

competitiveness of the domestic firm and welfare. A subsidy policy that induces the foreign firm to accept a feasible cooperative RJV …

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Platform Liability and Innovation

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo - 2022

We study a platformâs incentives to delist IP-infringing products and the effects of holding the platform liable for the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability increases innovation by reducing the competitive pressure faced...

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De-Fueling Externalities: Causal Effects of Fuel Taxation and Mediating Mechanisms for Delivering Climate and Health Benefits

Basaglia, Pier; Behr, Sophie M.; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2023

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of the world's largest environmental tax reform. We compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the German transport sector and synthetic counterfactuals following the 1999 eco-tax reform, and find average reductions in external damages of around...

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The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on Domestic Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Sector

Gamba, Simona - 2016

This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of 74 countries. The identification strategy exploits the different timing across countries of two sets of IPR reforms. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted...

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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants be the Trump Card?

Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata - 2018

’ skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …

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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants be the Trump Card?

Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Mausumi - 2019

’ skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas … the USA confirms the conjectures, and the empirical results substantiates our policy-guided hypothesis that skilled …

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